“In strictly technical terms, the “starting bell” would be the Iowa Caucus on February 6, 2012. That is the first contest in which actual delegates are won and lost. ‘
Are you claiming that she can announce the day before and suddenly she will win the next day?
“already has near 100% name recognition. “
She sure does. She also has a huge negative rating.
I'm not claiming that. I was simply responding to your query as to the starting bell. The NFL starting bell was last week but that didn't mean that the players weren't in training camps for the 4-6 weeks prior.
Palin herself is on record as stating that she will need to make her decision known in the September/early October timeframe. So we won't have to wait too much longer.
As for the negative ratings, that didn't stop Reagan, Nixon and Clinton from getting elected which is mentioned in my article. Palin is going to be just as polarizing if not more so than those candidates so her negatives are always going to be high. In fact if her negatives weren't high and even liberals liked her, I wouldn't be such a big supporter of her.
Ambiguity(!) aka Clairity: Are you claiming that she can announce the day before and suddenly she will win the next day?
Finny: Rolls eyes, sighs, and watches sadly as Clairity demeans herself.